Q&A With Instagram Chef @healthycook4champions
I have the pleasure to kick off a new series of blog posts, where I do a short Q&A with some of my favorite Instagram Chefs. That's right, Instagram Chefs, the ones you actually look up to, and learn new cooking recipes, tips, and techniques from every day, so you can impress your family and friends at home with awesome meals.
For my first session, I have the pleasure of interviewing my good friend Desi Marie Longinidis, AKA @healthycook4champions from Melbourne Australia, who is married to kickboxing legend George The Iron Lion Longinidis. I have been following her for the past year, and cannot get enough of her amazing cooking pictures and videos, loaded with tips and techniques for creating simple, mouth watering meals straight out of her home and yard kitchens. I love in particular when she cooks Seafood, which is a big favorite for me, and she manages to get it done always right on the spot! She is also the sister of another amazing Instagram Chef I follow, Irene Sharp AKA @come.grill.with.me
Thank you so much Desi for being a great friend, for giving me the chance to get to know you better, and for inspiring me to cook new exciting dishes all the time!
So here we go with the Q&A, please leave comments below for Desi and me:
Q. You are an amazing cook, and have an awesome Instagram profile. Can you please tell us a little bit of where you are coming from, and how you obtained your cooking passion and inspiration?
A. Thank you. I’m from Melbourne Australia and my passion for cooking has began when I was a young child cooking with my little sister Irene. We were two youngsters cooking beautiful food. As we grew older we would entertain many of our friends and family. We would tell our mother to invite people and we would organise feasts.
Q. Tell us a bit of your Cooking Hardware, what do you own and use?
A. My favourites are my Weber ,Space Grill, Thermopen, Thermomix and my amazing Belling 3 ovens.
Q. What is your favorite meat to cook, and why?
A. Being Pescaterian I love cooking all seafood and enjoy cooking meat and chicken for my husband & children who love their meat.
Q. What is your favorite way to cook?
A. My favourite way to cook is on the grill.
Q. Can you share your favorite dry-rub/marinade/sauce recipe?
A. Simple it of garlic, oregano and olive oil
Q. Can you share your #1 all-time favorite meat dish and recipe?
A. Marinated octopus in oregano, garlic & olive oil and straight on a hot grill finished of with lemon juice.
Q. What non-obvious cooking tip can you share?
A. When boiling spaghetti on the stove to avoid any water coming out over the pot add a Woden spoon across the top of the pot, this will keep all the froth from spilling over the pot.
Q. Life Goals - What do you wish you could cook in the future? A whole cow? Crossed Lamb? Giant Paella…
A. A giant paella that’s so big I can hardly stir with a giant spoon.
Q. What will you never ever cook or eat and why?
A. I would never cook kangaroo or alligator.
Q. If you could choose to take to an island with you only one commercial sauce/dry-rub/marinade, which one will it be?
A. Meat Mitch spice rub.
Q. Please let us know, your Must Have, can’t live without Grilling Accessory?
A. My Thermopen Editor Note: I completely agree, cannot live without a decent thermometer. If you don't have one, go get one now.
Q. Name at least 5 awesome inspiring cooks we must follow on Instagram and feel free to elaborate
A. My beautiful sister @come.grill.with.me who is amazing with the grill.
My younger sister who’s an amazing cake designer @divinecake.designs
Great Aussie bbq team @thesmokingjoint
My friends @greekwoodfiredcooking @girlscangrill @soneatheye @kendrick_bbq, @chez.douglas , @turkoglu.muratsef , @tahirchefss , @prettyinthekitchen their food is beautiful
More Awesome Seafood Cooking by Desi:
